Ghap.':3. An Expofition upon the BeokofJ OB. Verf. 17 the divers natures of finners , and the degrees of fin ; And the Hebrew,which ufually expreffethmany things by one word, doch here ufemany words to fignifie one thing k,only differing in de- gree. iirti; A (inner is called fometime ECata] that's' the lowel ex-. tzil preflion, ,noting one that loth mils a mark or his way, he aims at Erravit,ajcopo the mark, yet miffes it ; he Would go in the, right way, yet mi- votmu,nc e flakes it,or is miflcd:So every man,the holiefi men are finners,they Cara fryar cus often miifs the mark, the white which God Pets up, though they qua* vol errore take their aim, and level carefully at it. vel per I no. Secondly,A firmer is called[Pejhang]whichfgnifieth a wiilin rantiamvetin- nefs to fin, and an unwillingnefs to obey, it fignifieth pride in fin- ommrtun,u ning, or a finning from pride, which is plain rebellion. Moller. in Trrirdly,The word here ufed,and indivers other places, figni- Pia. 1°6. 6. fieth wickednefs in the height,and men moll active in wickednefs: pv,D So that when Job faith, There the wicked areat re} he means peccatt ex thole whohad been refilefs in fin , who could not fleep till they fuperbia.Tranf' had done mitchief, nor scarce fleep for doing mifchief: Hemeans greffio non fnra- thofe.who had out-run others in the tinfui activity, or rather plex quatif, turbulency and unquietnefs of their fpirits ; filch -asare -without Ìr;feaceree- peace themfelves, and Peek to moleft and difturb the peace of o- raria, under tilers: the Prophet defcribes them to be like the troubled Sca alìquendo re- which cannot reti, (Ifai.57.2,0.) Theproper fignification of the bellio vocatur. word {wicked) in the Hebrew, is the word unquiet, vexatious, Mufc,in Pfal or without reti : I Sam. 14. 47. Wberefoever Saul turned him- to. felf he vexed the enemy. So Job34.29. And the Reafon ofit is gi- ven,becaule men ofthis height and nature in fin are men of-trou- bled,unquiet and reftlels fpirits.As it notes aheight in holinefs and grace,to have<a kind of unquietnefs upon the fpirit till we can do good , andcompafs holy defigns and purpofes , when we are not onlypious, but zealous ; As David refoives, Pfal.i 32.3,4. Surely I will not come into the Tabernacle of my houfe, nor go up into mybed, I will not give fleep to mine eyes, nor (lumber to mine eye-lids, until I findout a place for the Lord, &c. So unquietnefs upon the.fpirit , till it can put fin into act , and compati anevil project, notes a compleatnefs in the filmer. Sin wakes and works in them to purpofe , who cannot fleep till they have wrought out their fin : of there it is properly that job fpcaks here, thefe troublers,of themfelves, and troublersof Ifael; thefe whom the Lord ¡ball trouble this day, or one day : there, Jo. Iii , the
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